Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) – East Lothian Home & Communities

Location:  East Lothian Home & Community

Salary: £26,227 per annum (£13.45 p/h equivalent)

Full Time – Permanent

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working within our East Lothian service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

The East Lothian Services team support individuals across East Lothian, both in a community setting and individual tenancies. The service provides proactive support to identify and address an individual’s needs, placing them at the heart of their support. With an emphasis on independence and empowerment, people are helped to move toward self-identified goals. this is at all times focused on improving self-esteem and addressing issues such loneliness, social exclusion, etc.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners will provide guidance, support and supervision to individual Mental Health and Wellbeing Workers and/or Peer Workers. You will work closely with Service Manager to ensure excellent service delivery characterised by choice, compassion, and flexible support.

You will be passionate about working in a person-centred way with adults from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of challenges.With a strong interest in people and a commitment to helping others, you will strive to make a positive impact on people’s lives and tailor support to enable people to fulfil their best potential.

We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack. The link to view or download is near the bottom of the advert on our website. If you are having issues with viewing this or downloading this please contact recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

When you go through the application process you will be asked to upload a CV. All applicants must also complete the screening questions on our portal. If you do not complete the screening questions your application may not be considered.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application.

Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.